Introducing DrawTwo.gg!

Table of Contents

It’s been 15 months since Valve announced Artifact to a… less than excited crowd at The International 2017. Unlike that crowd, we were excited right from the start. How could we not be? A card game made with esports as the main focus, designed by Richard Garfield, the best CG designer of all time, and made by a company known for just getting things right. These factors combined make Artifact the esport to watch out for in 2019 and made our decision to create DrawTwo, a competitively focused Artifact site, an easy one.

We started looking at what we could do and one thing kept popping up: starting out with a new esport isn’t easy. You’re gonna need help, no matter if you’re a hardcore player hoping to go pro or a casual pleb with the goal of just beating your friends. Even if you have experience in other card games, Artifact is a different type of game. I mean three boards? Initiative? I don’t know if I should be excited or scared of the depth that adds to the game. That’s why we’ve chosen to move away from the community site model we’ve used so far. DrawTwo is a resource site for Artifact players. Our goal is to make you the best Artifact player you can be. And we have some big plans.

Hit the ground running

As previously mentioned, we want you to hit the ground running as Artifact hits the market. We’ve prepared an array of articles aimed at bringing you up to speed with the game before even playing it. We have something for everyone. We have content from some of the best Hearthstone and Magic: The Gathering players of all time and the top players from the beta. These are the three articles we think you’ll be able to use right away.

Click the player images above for more information

Frank "Fr0zen" Zhang

Frank "Fr0zen" Zhang is not a new name for fans of Hearthstone or Team Liquid in general. In fact, he’s one of those players you usually refer to as “needs no introduction”. That he finished 2nd in the 2017 Hearthstone World Championships should really be all you have to know to validate him. If that’s not enough, how about the fact that he’s in the top-10 prize money earners in the game, of all time? Yeah, we thought that might draw you in. Fr0zen was kind enough to take some time from his busy Artifact practicing schedule, yes he’s switching, to write a guide for his fellow Hearthstone players also considering making the move. In “The Hearthstone Player's Guide To Artifact” he goes through key differences, such as how initiative fundamentally changes the way you have to think, but also the similarities between the games. So if you’re a Hearthstone fan who wants to give Artifact a shot, this is the article for you.

Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa

“Living legend” is probably the only fair way to describe Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa. He has built up his reputation as one of the best Magic: The Gathering players on the planet over the last 20(!) years and has been inducted to the MTG Hall of Fame. Who better to learn from than one of the greats? Paulo’s article “The Magic Player's Guide to Artifact” is his attempt to convince MTG fans to give Artifact a shot. He thinks the complexity of the game is what Magic players have been asking for and the different ways to play almost always gives the better player the upper hand.

RobAJG

RobAJG has been one of the top competitors in the beta and has a reputation for being an all-around solid player amongst his opponents. If you don’t know who he is, you can just add a “yet” at the end of that statement. He’s projected to do very well when Artifact finally gets a full launch. In his guide, Rob tackles limited, Artifact’s version of draft. Experienced players will tell you how different draft is compared to constructed. You have to be able to think on your feet and create a great deck based on what you’re presented with rather than hours of optimization. This can seem daunting for a new player. But don’t worry, RobAJG is here to help you get over that notion. In “Introduction to Limited” he takes you through both the rules of the mode as well as the mindset you should have going into it.

Diving into Limited

Making sense of the drafting portion of the game can be hard. Really hard. How are you, as a new player, supposed to know which cards are strong the first time you enter limited? You can, of course, spend hours and hours drafting away, slowly improving. Or you can use our limited list as a reference. So how can we know which cards are good? Well, our Limited Tier List is basically a Power Ranking of all the cards in the game, made by Team Liquid's George "Hyped" Maganzini. During the beta, Hyped, at one point, had nearly double the number of ladder points compared to the player 2nd on the limited leaderboards. Our limited list may not be the only one out there, but it’s the only one written by the best limited player in the game.

Time to get started

What you’ll see when visiting DrawTwo now isn’t all you’re getting. Over the next weeks, and months, we’ll put some finishing touches on a few features we’re very excited about. Without saying too much, we can say that one feature won’t even require you to have the site open for us to help you. So make sure you bookmark DrawTwo.gg and follow us on Twitter.

AdministratorIn those days, spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women, and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.

On November 16 2018 06:01 emperorchampion wrote:Is there a forum linked with drawtwo? I'm missing the TL feel of the new site, it's too 2018 for me

It's not connected. The site is backed/designed by TL, but not really a part of the TL community (separate site/staff/etc).

qoute from the site director on reddit:

Good catch! This was an intentional decision because we built this website from scratch, which means it's built on a different platform than our LiquidHearth and LiquidDota sites. This will hopefully allow us to do new, different, and very Artifact-specific things on our site which we couldn't have pulled off the old platform.

Good catch! This was an intentional decision because we built this website from scratch, which means it's built on a different platform than our LiquidHearth and LiquidDota sites. This will hopefully allow us to do new, different, and very Artifact-specific things on our site which we couldn't have pulled off the old platform.

Damn, so no or

TRUEESPORTS || your days as a respected member of team liquid are over

Not being linked to the TL community seems like quite the departure from previous TL sites. In fact, it doesn't seem to be a community site at all, but rather a hybrid of liquipedia and blogs? I guess if that works for Artifact then good for you, but I'm not excited.

This is the first teamliquid sellout that actually is terrible. Let's avoid hyping "esports" that aren't even out yet just because some company gave us a bunch of money to put a featured post on our website.

This really hearkens back to our dearly departed friend Totalbiscuit and his gospel of not pre-ordering games.

Let a game prove itself before we call it an esport.

I find your ideas both intriguing and boring and would like to both subscribe and unsubscribe from your quantum newsletter.

The key thing is the cost of playing artifact for me. M:TG has gotten too expensive with Hasbro refusing to do proper reprints while the price of playing Artifact makes me leery to start. The lack of any f2p is a bit meh.